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I've worked full-time as a consultant since 2007 and make a little over low six figures after taxes and paying contractors. We ( http://www.goodproduce.net ) do a lot of basic services like content development, web design (mainly WP), social media management, hosting, deck creation, and general "digital" consulting for high net-worth individuals (primarily athletes and their brand partners. In the early days, I worke…
You can have a successful online business with one-person, but there will always be a maximum to the amount of money you can make and it does not scale well. I ran a 1-person company for the past 3 years (B2B SAAS). I now have 2 other partners in the company to pick up the slack and we will be hiring a few employees next month. It's difficult to: maintain your current business (IE: new features, bug fixes, customer s…
I run http://officesnapshots.com which publishes photos of office design projects from around the world. I started it in 2007 as a gin side project to teaching history. I'm no longer teaching and it is the majority of my income.
Just a heads up, I can't see any text on your website (Chrome 33.0.1750.146 on Mac) http://imgur.com/Ptmxgsm
if you inspect element, is there no text as well?
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To underscore Patrick's point about just how many of these businesses there really are, he's one of the few folks I remember from the old Business of Software forums over at joelonsoftware.com that seem to have migrated over here. That was a tiny little board where the owners of single player software businesses would get together to ask silly questions about how to update their shareware product's PAD files. There w…
I have two daughters, a niece and a nephew who might be moving from Spanish Immersion this fall to classes that are more rigorous in math, science, etc. Maybe I'm your target audience., maybe not. When I look at your website, the last blog post and tweet are from 2010. It makes things look dead. We're not homeschooling but http://homeschoolspanishacademy.com/ looks a lot more active. Also, "fair trade" often seems to…
Working on other windows software, and working towards starting a SaaS app, blogging about it all :)
Currently i created a member management site on www.ledenboek.be/EN for sport clubs, i'm still improving this. But it's also a test for marketing and gaining clients.
Next up is Surveyor ( a email/sms marketing web application which i used myself (not public yet). I'm going to use it first for clients who ask me to create their website.
But the big one is a document management system, that is totally different from the existing onces. I already have interest have a company with +/- 100 users and we are setting up a small demo in April there (ps. This will hit Hackernews in about 2-3 months)
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Just a heads up, I can't see any text on your website (Chrome 33.0.1750.146 on Mac) http://imgur.com/Ptmxgsm
thanks for the heads up - I haven't been able to reproduce it myself but have received a couple other reports of that happening. if you inspect element, is there no text as well?
You can have a successful online business with one-person, but there will always be a maximum to the amount of money you can make and it does not scale well. I ran a 1-person company for the past 3 years (B2B SAAS). I now have 2 other partners in the company to pick up the slack and we will be hiring a few employees next month. It's difficult to: maintain your current business (IE: new features, bug fixes, customer s…
Actually, vacation / time off shouldn't be an issue. I've been doing this for 15 years and now my product runs like clockwork. Generally unless I'm doing new dev work, I only have a few support emails per day. As long as I go on vacation somewhere where I can at least have wifi in the evenings and mobile data during the day to occasionally check my email, it's not a problem. Also I regularly take long breaks during t…
I run http://www.candyjapan.com It just crossed 500 paying members. I started it with my wife, but recently the shipping part is no longer done by us two manually, but by a local supermarket. In the beginning it was just an email to some previous customers asking if they might be interested in a club like this. Then a landing page and a HN post. From there it grew through blog mentions and now there is a trickle of o…
Since you didn't specify the type of business ( http://www.dot-com-it.com ) ; I run a consulting business as a programmer that is just me. In the 'early' days (I started in 1999) I sort of fell into it. I was burnt out and walked out of a job. Networking got me 2 consulting client, and things just ballooned from there. I fell into it accidentally and learned a lot of hard lessons along the way. In the early days I di…